CNC ECourse Day 7 CNC Final Projects

CNC ECourse Day 7 CNC Final Projects

Video Info:
This is the 7th and final day of the Learn CNC Basics E-Course. Today is a fun day where we look at a few different CNC projects and what we can do with CNC Technology. There are CNC Parts we look at and CNC Art pieces we look at. There are CNC Plasma, CNC Router, CNC Mill and CNC Lathe projects that are discussed.

Next, we talk about CNC Information. CNC Information is a community site that connects people who have a passion for CNC. There are CNC Blogs, CNC Profiles, CNC Articles and CNC Forums. You can join up for free and also get a Free G-Code Quick Guide if you do.

Come on over and join up today!

Video Transcript:

Its days seven and we've made it. Today is the day that I'm probably most excited about and it's also our easiest day for you as well. There's nothing too heavy to learn today, is really about final projects and various things that we've built or made using CNC.

Remember our five different steps to CNC well guess what, we are done with those and today we are going to look at final products. Remember our flowcharts? We are also done with those as well. So let's move on. What's left? Well we are going to show off some of those parts that we made with CNC just to give you a taste or look at the different things you can do. We are also going to show off some of the art that we've made with CNC. In the second part of video today were to talk a little bit about CNC information.com and what it is. It really is great CNC related info and it's free it's for you to use as a resource.

Let's get into the different the types of items that you can build with CNC. Here’s a look, you probably recognize this as a barn and there's a number of cutouts here hanging on the side of this barn. These are all done with a CNC Plasma cutter and designed initially on the front-end of the project. A photograph is taken of the barn and the sizing of it so when the silhouettes were cut out they would fit to. You can take a look at this windmill in the upper right-hand corner. This is really a 4 x 8 sheet of steel cutouts in the shape. The cowboy is bigger and he's a two-part item and this cow is really a 4x8 sheet of 12-gauge steel.

Here's another look at a farm entry gate. A buddy of mine’s father has a ranch called Sleepy Q Ranch. They wanted to some boots on either end just to spruce up their entry to the ranch.

This a look at a CNC router project. You'll notice on the upper left, this is the design in CAD and we brought it into cam. This is actually 3-D routing you can see it is puffed up here. This is a look at the CNC Wood router that I built. There's a number of different steps of this process obviously but this is just afer I got done with the final one and this is made out of cedar. Here's a look at that as a Tiger hockey's Iowa Hawkeyes fans look at the Tiger Hawk out on his deck. This is his brand-new deck that he built this past summer with a hot tub and he wanted to show off to everyone in the world that he is from Iowa. This is the final project after he stained it and it looks like pretty cool actually.

Now there's the other side of it, which is CNC parts. Not everything is just for fun or for good looks. Here's a look when I was building my CNC router table. There's a number of different parts I had to make on my milling machine. This is a look at a few different ones. There are actually a couple different types of parts but they are very similar. I’d come up with a prints and you'll see that the sizing of this was 3 inches by 3. Then I would come up with a program of some sorts and go ahead and mill them. You can see a stack of them. This is what those adjusters look like on my a CNC Wood router when they're finished and in use.

In industry there's a number of parts obviously that are built each day using CNC machines and here's a couple different looks. On the left here you have the material bolted and held down but it just finish with its machining cycle is as machining aluminum will see that the coolants everywhere. Over here on the right-hand side there is a lathe and it looks like some sort of coupler they are building. They just cut some threads into it as well. There's a number of things in industry using this technology each and every day to build the things that we use the various products.

Let’s look at a couple of different fun projects. On the left here this is vcarving with a wood router, this is a Pacific Northwest Indian style of design or Native American style design. Here are some numbers. I met a lady who got her son into motorcross and he wanted to display his number in his room. One point is that it can be any font really.

This is showing a few different things coming together. There is some steel here and that was done with the CNC Plasma cutter and then you'll also notice this glass disc. This is a tabletop or coffee table top that you can get can anywhere, but sandblasted. One of the reasons I'm pointing this out is I also have a home vinyl cutter and if you have a vinyl cutter you can cut out sand blast resistant various shapes and sizes. It's a type of CNC to me and crosses over nicely. I cut out that the vinyl sandblast resist and I adhered it to this glass disk and then sandblasted this design. This is actually a floor lamp and has a footswitch. You can put it in a corner and as you walk by the footswitch you step on it and turn on the lights down in the corner. Really what I'm trying to get across is that you're really only limited by your imagination. If you can think of it you can do it with CNC. If it's more complex there may be more steps to it but really it's your brain that limits you.

Lets move on to CNCinformation.com. This is a community websites where you come and share your information. You can share products, projects links, and anything related to CNC. You can also set up a member profile or a user profile and you can do some interesting things with that. If you do set up a member profile you can throw some photographs up there that can be project build photographs and you can connect with other members. There are tons of articles their, video tutorials on cnc, and there’s a series of forums there is well where you can ask questions or just add information. Also there is a bank of CNC links that constantly grows and if you have a personal site or commercial site that is related to CNC you can go ahead and go in and add your own link to them right now if you go to CNCinformation.com. If you join up and register there is a free G-Code quick guide that you can download at that is just really a reference for you that you have to run your machines so throughout the shop and error you can't quite remember what that G-Code meant its quick reference right there for you that you can take a peek at. Remember its real easy and it's free to use this site is for you. Head on over and join up and get all the benefits of the community websites about CNC information today. That's all I got for the basics introductions to CNC course. If you have any other questions you can look me up over at www.CNCinformation.com. Thanks!